448 Thomas Thomsen 



The wooden bowl shown in PI. XXIV, 9 (L. 3635) should, I am 

 inclined to believe, be regarded as one of these drip-bowls for a lamp. 

 It was found among the houses on the east shore of Stormbugt. It 

 is roughly made, hollowed out from a block, with thick walls, and 

 somewhat charred on the underside. It will be noticed that the one 

 side is convex, the other concave. The bottom is not flat; the bowl 

 must, if I am not mistaken, have been supported by the stones on 

 which the lamp was placed. The dimensions are, length 155 cm., 

 breadth 55 and depth about 3 cm. The rough workmanship here 

 employed is in marked contrast to that of other vessels and boxes etc., 

 used in the house. A specimen corresponding at least in shape to 

 this was found b}' the Nathorst Expedition. ^ 



The lamps were found in a good state of preservation. This is 

 not the case with the cooking vessels, which were all broken; from 

 the fragments brought home, not a single complete vessel could be 

 reconstructed. PI. XXIV, 3—7 show some of the more characteristic 

 shards, from which it will be seen that the vessels were more or 

 less rounded, without sharp edges, either at the corners or between 

 sides and bottom. XXIV, 3, from Eskimonæsset, has at the corner 

 of the outer side a neatly formed projection, through which the hole 

 for the cord was bored; another fragment, belonging to the same 

 vessel as the piece shown in XXIV, 4, from Snenæs, house 406, has 

 a similar projection on the inner side of the corner. The fragments 

 XXIV, 3 — 4 indicate the original height of the vessels, 12 and 10'5 

 cm. respectively. It is otherwise with the fragments XXIV, 6, from 

 Maroussia, house 144, and XXIV, 7, found by the meat-stores on the 

 same island. Both these pieces are, it is true, pierced for hanging; 

 the holes here seen, however, are, we may doubtless suppose, not 

 the original ones, but were bored after the pot had suffered damage, 

 and had been converted into a shallower one by grinding off the 

 broken upper part. The inner depth of the vessel as it now stands 

 is only 4—45 cm. ; the holes are roughly bored, and the edge is but 

 indifferently rounded. The general scarcity of material, necessitating 

 constant economy with these stone vessels, is evident from most of 

 the fragments. In PI. XXIV, 4, it will be noticed that the two parts 

 of the fragment preserved have been fastened together through holes 

 near the edges, between which a groove is cut to sink the binding. 

 Similar holes may also be seen in XXIV, 5, and in a bottom piece 

 of reddish sandstone, not shown, from the east shore of Stormbugt. 



' Stolpe. PI. III, Fig. 10, right-hand bottom corner. 



